Genetics (non-medical)

This detailed book contains chapters using unbiased approaches such as chemical and transposon mutagenesis, as well as a protocol for allelic exchange, to make targeted mutants in Staphylococcus, as generating mutants of this bacteria can be accomplished in many ways, depending on the intended changes.

The recent advent of molecular technologies has changed the way plant breeders identify and select their germplasm as genetic variation can now be assessed at the DNA level.

This book addresses cutting-edge techniques for researching transposon mutagenesis, an approach for identifying individual gene contributions to the phenotypic characteristics of a particular microorganism.

Mouse Genetics: Methods and Protocols provide selected mouse genetic techniques and their application in modeling varieties of human diseases.

This detailed volume will focus on the phenomenon of RNA interference by providing comprehensive coverage of various techniques for in vivo micro/siRNA imaging including the design and synthesis of specific imaging agents and tools, the development of imaging methodologies, and their interpretation.

This volume provides readers with a comprehensive review of various gene silencing methodologies and its applications.

Rapid changes and significant progress have been made in the Agrobacterium field, such as genetically transforming plants for both basic research purposes and agricultural development.

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This volume explores the latest updates on microscopy approaches and techniques used by scientists studying in the field of gene expression imaging.

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of the main, up-to-date methods, tools, and techniques for microarray data analysis, covering the necessary steps for the acquisition of the data, its preprocessing, and its posterior analysis.

This volume provides a collection of protocols for the study of DNA-DNA contact maps, replication profiles, transcription rates, RNA secondary structures, protein-RNA interactions, ribosome profiling and quantitative proteomes and metabolomes.

This book provides methods and clear protocols for the various technologies available to detect, characterize, and study Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), a member of the genus Closterovirus, family Closteroviridae.

This book provides definitive methods to perform stable isotope probing (SIP) experiments, covering a wide spectrum of stable isotope techniques used in microbial ecology, such as methods to target and analyze labeled DNA, rRNA, mRNA, protein, and PLFA.

This fully updated second edition explores protocols that address the most challenging aspects of experimental work in ancient DNA, such as preparing ancient samples for DNA extraction, the DNA extraction itself, and transforming extracted ancient DNA molecules for sequencing library preparation.

This volume provides relevant synthetic strategies, incorporation, and applications of non-natural nucleic acids.

This book brings together recent methods and theoretical approaches developed to dissect the activity and function of bacterial and eukaryotic Structural Maintenance of Chromosome (SMC) proteins.

This book focuses on technologies used to study horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in prokaryotes.

Yeast Metabolic Engineering: Methods and Protocols provides the widely established basic tools used in yeast metabolic engineering, while describing in deeper detail novel and innovative methods that have valuable potential to improve metabolic engineering strategies in industrial biotechnology applications.

This volume focuses on various approaches to studying long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), including techniques for finding lncRNAs, localization, and observing their functions.

Quantitative Real-Time PCR: Methods and Protocols focuses on different applications of qPCR ranging from microbiological detections (both viral and bacterial) to pathological applications.

The aim of this volume is to provide a step-by-step guide for implementing a selection of novel techniques in the lab.

This book provides both historical perspective and practical information to support researchers either currently involved in genomic research on rats or planning to begin such a project.

This volume presents the most recent studies on mRNA polyadenylation in plants.

This volume discusses popular methods to achieve different types of mutagenesis and forward/reverse genetics in Medicago truncatula.

The book focuses on the regulation of protein function and biological activity by the post-translational modification known as acetylation.

The objective of this volume is to detail current technologies associated with cereal genomics, providing a valuable resource for researchers working in breeding and molecular crop improvement programs.

In this volume expert researchers in the field detail many of the methods which are now commonly used to study RNA.

The ability to produce vast amounts of DNA sequence data has enabled the discovery of molecular markers in model organisms, crops, as well as orphan species making genotyping the rate limiting factor, and this volume focuses on the different markers available and the low to high throughput genotyping of these markers.

This volume shares technologies that detect common epigenetic changes which are very important in the early detection, progression, and prognosis of cancer as well as the design of new therapeutic tools against cancer cells.

This volume opens by covering two main types of approaches widely used to determine essential genes: single-gene knockouts and transposon mutagenesis, in both prokaryotes and Candida albicans.

This book provides numerous methods for identification, validation, and functional characterization of chimeric RNAs, herein described as any transcript which contains the nucleotide sequence of two distinct parental genes.

This volume aims to capture the entire microbiome analysis pipeline, sample collection, quality assurance, and computational analysis of the resulting data.

This book expands upon the useful first edition by exploring classic Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) techniques as well as a number of recently developed applications.

This second edition volume brings together the experiences of leading scientists in the discipline of cancer gene profiling.

This detailed volume provides a collection of protocols for the study of miRNA functions in plants.

This volume provides detailed descriptions on cutting-edge experimental methods to assess the multiple and complex interactions between T.

Scientists with long-refined expertise describe cutting-edge techniques for the production of therapeutic proteins and vaccines.

Recent insight into the transcripts generated from the mammalian genome (i.

Given the popularity and utility of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, yeast-based functional genomics and proteomics technologies, developed over the past decade, have contributed greatly to our understanding of bacterial, yeast, fly, worm and human gene functions.

Meiosis is one of the most critical processes in eukaryotes, required for continuation of species and generation of new variation.

MicroRNAs constitute a particularly important class of small RNAs given their abundance, broad phylogenetic conservation and strong regulatory effects, with plant miRNAs uniquely divulging their ancient evolutionary origins and their strong post-transcriptional regulatory effects.

RNA interference has become a key method in the suppression of gene expression and the development of therapeutic agents, yet there is still the problem of delivery, stability, and the danger of off-target effects such as the silencing of unwanted genes and activation of innate immunity.

"e;Your genome is an email attachment"e; What a difference a few years can make?

Studies related to recombinant gene expression have brought new advance such as the emergence of the "e;omics"e; technologies.

Featuring current resources used to discover new legume family genes and to understand genes and their interactions, Legume Genomics: Methods and Protocols provides techniques from expert researchers to study these plants that are so vitally important for food, feed, human nutrition, bioenergy, and industrial purposes.

In this volume of Methods in Molecular Biology(TM), expert investigators offer comprehensive, complementary, and cutting-edge technologies for studies of gene regulation.

Only in recent times has the possibility of growing and implanting replacement teeth, made from one's own cells, moved into the realm of realistic possibilities; however, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of tooth development must be studied in a range of vertebrates, from zebrafish to mice, so that evolutionarily conserved network kernels, which will define the cellular states of generic vertebrate tooth development, can be recognized.

The field of epigenetics has played a major role at the forefront not only of molecular biology, but also of medical genetics and clinical medicine.

The use of RNAi technology is essential for most plant science researchers.